Dear SHS, my Buick looks way better than your Chevy...but I'm not going to post my own screenshot to tinypic.com so you can see...oh, and by the way, I'm using a Ford built by someone else, and it isn't quite satisfactory...can you tell me how to fix the Ford?

I should also here note, that the unpatented (i.e. default) autohinting of the newest libfreetype, in Puppy 4.1-alpha-5, is better than previous versions, actually pretty good; it's getting close to the point where there isn't enough difference between with and without my tweaks, to make the game worth the candle.

Update: after doing a bit of searching and reading about Linux vs. Windows vs. Mac fonts, I realize that what fonts people like is highly subjective. I have seen example comparisons posted, where I find the Linux fonts horrible, while others have the opposite preference.
Ideally, I would like to be able to tune the font to my liking, like in Windows with the Cleartype tuning app.
In this image I prefer the "thinnest" font at the lower right:
http://i38.tinypic.com/9gx0ra.jpg

On the whole I like the fonts in Puppy very much, they are just a tad to heavy for me. But in Opera fonts look very bad. I tried a few tips to improve it, but that may have made things even worse.

IMO it is definitely best not to have any font smoothing for small fonts like you would use for normal on-screen display. The first thing I do when I have to use a Windows machine is hunt down all the different controls to turn off cleartype - in Windows, in Office, in IE. It's quite painful because they hide all the controls, and the ones in Office 2007 always seem to be in different places, but at least it lets my eyes stop screaming _________________Classic Puppy quotes
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root: n. the superuser or administrator account that has complete control over everything in the machine. Running as root is a taonga of Puppy Linux users.

FWIW Openoffice.org does use freetype... the problem is that it includes its own freetype (actually, 3.x may not... I can't remember; but it certainly did before). You can fix its font rendering by replacing its freetype with links to the system freetype.

I hope you get better soon SHS._________________Classic Puppy quotes
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root: n. the superuser or administrator account that has complete control over everything in the machine. Running as root is a taonga of Puppy Linux users.

Well, this is my first time posting, and I've only been using Puppy - or, indeed, any version of Linux - for a couple of days now.

Anyway, I'm using Boxpuppy, the Puplet that's integrated with OpenBox. Now, maybe I'm making some terribly newbish mistake here, but I've tried to use the .pet package, and initiating it simply causes my system to go dead. Just black and crash.

...I'm using Boxpuppy,...I've tried to use the .pet package, and initiating it simply causes my system to go dead. Just black and crash...Is this expected behaviour?

No, it is not expected behavior. You should just have to single-left-click on the PET package, it should take a minute or less to install, and there should be no problem.

There is more than one version of BoxPup and it is possible that the retro version with kernel 2.6.21.7 may not be compatible, my hunch is that the version of freetype in the PET package may be too new for that old of a kernel (and other libraries). If you will tell me which version of BoxPup you are using, I will download and install it and see what's going on.

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